Brickbat: Kentucky Reign of Terror

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David Gabbard thought he'd been improperly pulled over by a Kentucky State Police trooper, so he complained about his stop on Facebook. The next day, the trooper who stopped him and two others showed up at Gabbard's home. According to a federal lawsuit Gabbard has filed, when the woman who lives with Gabbard tried to record the confrontation, one of the troopers grabbed her phone. The trooper who stopped Gabbard then pulled off his badge and dared him to fight him. The three left only when one noticed video cameras at the front of Gabbard's home.

Comments

[gaoxiaen]

I hate when that happens!

[gaoxiaen]

By the way, I used to have an orange name long ago and then one day I didn't. Why?

[Rat on a train]

Only Trump supporters get orange names.

[sarcasmic]

You need a website or something. I dunno.

[sarcasmic]

I think.

[sarcasmic]

Who fucking knows?

[Deconstructed Potato]

Whoa! How did ya do that?!

[sarcasmic]

[MSimon]

The Shadow

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Look, every color is some sort of virtue signal.

[Bubba Jones]

You deleted the weblink from your profile.

[Deconstructed Potato]

Tough guy cop shows up with two buddies for backup, and knows he'll put the guy away for assaulting a cop if he dare lay a finger on him. Piece of shit cop.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

One three bad apples don't spoil the whole bunch!

[MatthewSlyfield]

But if you have a brain, three bad apples in one bunch have to make you at least wonder about the quality of the rest of them.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Are you saying that finding a good cop is like that old lady at my local grocery store, who picks up every single apple, examines it, and puts it back, before finally walking of with a banana?

[PS]

Schopenhauer's Law of Entropy applies

[Fist of Etiquette]

That's how you settle things like a man.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

So cops lurk on the FB pages of people they have served looking for positive feedback? I hope they are collecting OT for this follow-up with a dissatisfied citizen.

[Fist of Etiquette]

O'Toole said the cameras on the house were not working at the time.

Their presence was what saved him on that day but an actual video record of the confrontation is the only thing that might have brought the suit home.

[Wizard4169]

Video cameras are to bad cops what crosses and sunlight are to vampires.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"In an October 10 letter to O'Toole, the Kentucky State Police confirmed that Troopers Townsley and Scalf were suspended without pay for four days after a preliminary investigation found conduct unbecoming an officer."

But not arrested for assault.

[Stilgar]

Harassment is probably the appropriate charge.

[Fist of Etiquette]

According to the complaint, Townsley physically assaulted him.

[Longtobefree]

Once again, clear and convincing evidence that facebook needs to be banned for the evil that it does.
(or is that google?)
((or twitter?))

[Dan S.]

Whoa. I'm just glad you stopped at TWO sets of parentheses.

[Longtobefree]

Well, I'm not all that good at math, so that is my limit.

[GoatOnABoat]

Bad cops, bad cops
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
When they come for you

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

"Nothing, nothing,
Nothing is what we'll do,
Cause they won't come for us."

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Prop tip: Depart Kentucky immediately; move to modern, successful community.

(This would not necessarily solve police-related problems, but it is uniformly good advice. Young Kentuckians should wait until the day of high school graduation before fleeing for strong, liberal-libertarian universities and colleges.)

[Alcibiades]

Still bitter, still clinging, still incoherent.

[Rossami]

Yeah, because police abuse never happen in RAK's beloved liberal strongholds like New York, Cleveland, Chicago or the entire state of California.

Moron. Bad cops are a problem everywhere. At least in KY, this is getting called out as bad behavior.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

yeah. Looks like the Rev is for more stop and frisk for KY.

[Ecoli]

I have decided the Rev is deep-troll.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Let's hear the moral case for encouraging a young, smart, ambitious person to stay in Kentucky, you bigoted rube.

[Agammamon]

Its not bigoted NYC, bigoted Chicago, bigoted Detroit, bigoted San Fransisco . . .

[Miracleworx]

Very useful!!

[crufus]

Once again, the 99% make the other 1% look bad.